Renewable sole for worn planter-shoes.



A. L. BAUGHMAN.

RENEWABLE SOLE FOR WORN PLANTER SHOES. APPLICATION FILED JULY 14,1908.

907,440. Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

gvwcntoi wmmm ALTON L. BAUGHMAN, OF WOLFLAKE, INDIANA.-

RENEWABLE SOLE FOR WORN PLANTER-SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Application'flled July 14, 1908. Serial No. 43,491

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALTON L. BAUGHMAN,

"a citizen of the United States, residing at sole thereof has becomeworn out.

Wolfiake, in the county of Noble and State of Indiana, have invented anew and useful Renewable Sole for Worn Planter-Sh0es, of which thefollowin is a s ecification.

This invention has re ation to soles for planter shoes, and it consistsin the novel construction and arrangements of its parts, as hereinaftershown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a renewable sole for plantershoes, whereby when one sole is worn out it may be replaced by another,thereby saving considerable expense, as it avoids the necessity ofequipping i the planter with an entire new shoe when the Again by reasonof the fact that the shoes used upon ordinary corn planters and the likeare subjected to much wear and abrasion during the course of planting,the said shoes frequently become worn to such an extent as to becomeuseless, and, when this occurs, considerable expense is entailed byproviding new shoes, Frequently the shoes are worn after it has becomeimpossible to obtain shoes of similar character or pattern for thereason that the shoes vary in pattern during different seasons.

It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide arenewable sole for such shoes also, and when the shoe has become wornthe said sole may be applied thereto, thus rolonging the life of theshoe and saving t e expense as above stated.

With this object in view the renewable sole consists of plates of likepattern andv dimension which are joined together laterally at theirlower portions and which are spread apart at their upper portions forthe reception of the lower portion only of the planter shoe. The loweredge of the sole conforms to the original configuration of the loweredge of the planter shoe (provided it is a plied to a worn plantershoe), or in case t e sole is applied to a planter shoe in the firstinstance the lower edge of the said soleis a continuation of thecurvature of the lower forward edge of the planter shoe.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a plantershoe with the renewable sole attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the sole detached, and

Fig. 3 is a rear end'elevation of the sole detached.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing the numeral 1 represents the planter shoe andthe dotted line 2, represents the ed e to which the lower portion of thesaid s cc has been worn during its use, or the lower ed e of the shoe asit may be made in the st instance. The graintube 3, is mounted upon therear end portion of the shoe 1. The renewablev sole consists of theplates 4, which are of like configuration and like dimensions. Saidplates 4, are secured together at their lower portions by welding,riveting, or otherwise, as at 5, and the lower edges 6, of the saidplates conform to the original configuration of the lower edge of theplanter shoe 1, or if the plates are applied to the shoe in the first instance, the lower edge 6, thereof is a continuation of the curvature ofthe'lower for- The upper portions of the plates 4, are spacedapart forthe reception of the lower portion of the shoe 1, and the upper portionsof the said plates are secured to the shoe 1, by means of the rivets 7,which pass transversely through the said shoe and the said plates.

From the above description it is obvious that when the planter shoe 1,becomes worn. to such an extent as to be ractically useless, that theshoe may be applied thereto in the manner as illustrated in Big. 1, orshould the planter shoe in the first instance be made substantially asshown in Fig. 1, the sole may be applied thereto and in both instancesthe lower edge 6, of the sole will be a continuation of the lowerforward edge of the shoe, and the shoe and sole combined will have thegeneral configuration of an ordinary planter shoe. Thus by applying thesole to a worn planter shoe the said shoe is transformed from aworthless condition into a serviceable one, and may be usedindefinitely, for as soon as the sole becomes worn it may be removed anda new sole substituted in its stead.

While the description herein given has been directed articularlv toplanter shoes,

it is obvious t at the sole may also be ad' vantageously applied tolisters or similar im plements.

Another advantage gained by the present construction of the sole is thatno part of the sole projects beyond the upper edge of the shoe 1, whenthe sole is applied thereto, and

consequently no shoulders or angles are provided which may accumulatesoil and thus obstruct the proper operation of the shoe or add unduedraft to the implement. It may be added further that by reason of thefact that the lower portions of the blades 4. are joined togetherlaterally that the metal. throughout the said area is substantiallydoubled, and consequently the lower portion of the shoe possesses reaterwearing qualities than if the metal otwhich the sole is composed were ofthe same thickness throughout.

At the same time the said sole does not add y l of the plates conformingto the curvature of undue Weight to the shoe for the reasons that theportions of the sole which overlap the side ortions of the shoe arerelatively thin. It wi 1 also be seen that by reason of the fact thatthe'lower ortion of the shoe 1, is seated within the so e and hascontact with the late 4, along the lines thereof wherethey egin toapproach each other, that any jar ring to which the sole may besubjected is not transmitted in an entirety to the rivets 7, whichsecure the 'sole to the shoe. That is to say, the configuration of thesole in a great measure protects the rivets 7 against jarring and rougusage.

Having described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters In combination with a lanter shoe having the lower rear edgesof its side portions siaced apart, a renewable sole, comprising p atesof like pattern and dimensions integrally joined together laterally attheir lower portions and spaced apart at their upper portions, toreceive the lower portions of the sides of the shoe said plate havingintermediate inclined portions which form rests for the lower edges ofthe shoes, the lower edges the lower forward edge ortion of the shoe,the upper edges of the so e terminating short of the upper edges oi theshoe, and securing devices passing transversely through the sides of t1e sole and the shoe.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALTON L. BAUGHMAN.

Vitnesses:

HENRY W. KLIoK, STANLEY L. SURFUS.

